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A compendium to match Radio 4: boring, but somehow gripping

A review of For the Love of Radio 4: An Unofficial Companion, by Caroline Hodgson. Bet you didn’t know Arthur Scargill and Cilla Black both chose the Mona Lisa as their Desert Island Discs luxury

11 October 2014

9:00 AM

11 October 2014

9:00 AM

For the Love of Radio 4: An Unofficial Companion Caroline Hodgson

Summersdale, pp.208, £9.99

When you think about it, Radio 4 is mostly a pile of old toss. Money Box qualifies as an anaesthetic, the dramas couldn’t act their way to the nearest street corner and Sheila Dillon from The Food Programme just needs a slap. That’s even before we reach the five most depressing words in the English language: ‘And now, You and Yours.’

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